Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts

• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol uneducated does not mean dumb.

  I stand by what I said.

  The future lies in those “uneducated” people.

  Everything about this whole thread screams privileged white people who haven’t known an ounce of struggle in their lives and all of a sudden things get a little tight that they can’t buy butter instead of margarine and holy hell the sky is falling!

  This is why all my friends now are immigrants lol.

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  • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Birth rates usually don’t fall because people don’t want kids, but because:

    • housing is too expensive
    • work and family are hard to combine
    • childcare isn’t well organized
    • there’s too little security Countries like France and the Scandinavian nations do better:
    • affordable childcare
    • parental leave
    • flexible work
    • stable housing certainty Result: higher birth rates than Japan, Italy, Spain, and formerly Germany.
If you want a “younger” society → invest structurally in good family life.

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    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m a high school dropout and I knew this shit. Dumbass has no excuse.

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Go into any rural and/or poor area in America or Canada and you’ll find poor uneducated people and they’re having kids just fine even in wealthy countries with a lot of environmental factors pushing against it.

      It’s a matter of want. Own your decision don’t blame it on external factors. If you want to blame external factors for your not having kids you’re weak. My girlfriend is Kenyan. She has a 11 year old son back home she hasn’t seen in a year. She had a kid in a small rural town halfway around the world and moved to Canada to make a better life for her and her family. You know what she’s never done? Push blame outwards.

      Yes, structurally we can be doing a lot better to make it easier and more attractive for people to have kids but that was and is not my point. My point is if you want kids just fucking do it. The reward far outweighs the risk and long term you’re going to be much, much better off because you’ve just grown your team.

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      • Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Get this guy a geography class RIGHT NOW

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  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    immigrants

    Oh shit! There’s another solution!

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